Magazine gun



L. P. DISS.

MAGAZINE GUN.

(No Model.)

N0. 367,199. Patented July 26, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

LOUIS P. DISS, OF ILION, NE\V YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ADDISON BRILL AND ALBERT N. RUSSELL AS RECEIVERS OF REMINGTON & SONS.

MAGAZINE-GUN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 367,199, dated July 26, 1887. Application filed April 18, 1887. Serial No. 235,298. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS P. Drss, of Ilion',

in the county of I-Ierkimer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in MagazineGuns,of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to magazineguns, and the invention consists in means for converting the arm from a magazine-gun into asingleloader, and vice versa, at will, ashereinafter more fully described.

Figure 1 is a side elevation with a portion shownin section. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section on the line'mx of Fig. 1, and Fig.

: 3 a similar view on theline yyof Fig. 1. Figs.

4, 5, and 6, are views of certain details.

This invention is an improvement on the gun for which Patents Nos. 356,275 and 356,277 were granted to me January 18, 1887, in the 2c latter of which two spring-lips were shown, one to hold the cartridges at the proper height in the magazine to permit them to be shoved therefrom into the chamber of the gun by the breech bolt,and the other to hold them below the line of the breech-bolt when it was desired to use the gun as a single-loader. Instead of two spring-lips, I now use but one, it being made vertically adjustable, so that it will perform the same service that the two lips 0 did in the former instance.

In the drawings, Arepresents the receiver, and I the magazine, both of which, together with the breech mechanism, are constructed the same as in my prior Patent No. 356,275,

5 and which, therefore, need not be further described.

Instead of securing the spring-lipl to the receiver direct, as in my former patent, I now secure it to a separate plate,G,which,as shown c in Fig. 1, is pivoted at its front end to the lower part of the receiver by ascrew, a, while its rear end is left free to be raised or lowered at will, as indicated by the dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 3, and thereby raising or lowering the i I 5 spring-lip P, which at its rear end is held in a slot, 6, in the plate G, as shown in Fig. 1,

and in which the rear or free end of the springlip has free play, the same as the lips had in a the sides of the receiver in my former patent. g It will of course be understood that the slot or opening through which the spring-lip projects in the side ofthe receiver will be made of suffieient width to permit the lip to be raised and lowered, as described; or, what is the same in effect, the receiver may be cut away at that point below the lip. In order to thus raise and lower the lip I?,I mounta rock-shaft, Z, in the lug at the under side of the receiver, in rear of the magazine, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and connect it with the rear end of plate G by an arm, 0, as shown clearly in Fig. 1, and to the opposite end of this rock-shaft Z, I secure a spring thumb piece or lever,b,as shown in Fig. 2, so that by moving the upper or free end of said thumb-lever 1) forward it will de press the rear end of plate G, and thereby lower the spring-lip P, and by moving the thumb-lever b backward it will raise the rear end of the plate G, and thereby the lip P also.

To lock the thumb-leverin position and prevent the lip from being accidentally moved from the position to which it may have been adj nsted, either up or down,thc spring thumblever is held in position and limited in its to and-fro movement by aplate, a, secured firmly 73 in position, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, there being, as shown in Fig. 5, arecess or notch on the inside of said plate a, into which the thumb-lever b springs and rests when adjusted either forward or back. By this arrangement 50 the cartridges in the magazine can be held at a higher or lower point, as indicated by the full and the dotted lines in Fig. 3, so that when the lip P is raised, as shown in full lines, the cartridges in the magazine I will be in the proper position to be fed or shoved therefrom into the chamber of the gun, one at a time,by the forward movement of the breechbolt, the same as in my former patents, and when the lip is depressed to the position indicated by the dotted lines the cartridges in the magazine will also be depressed to the position shown by the dotted lines, in which case they will be held below the breech-bolt, and the gun can then be used as a single-loader. The thumb-piece being located at the righthand side of the receiver, where it is in the most convenient position for manipulation,enables this change to be effected with the least possible time and effort. I00

The only reason for locating the adjustable lip P on the left-hand side of the receiver is that there is more metal on that side of the receiver, the opposite side being cutaway along its upper edge to afford room for the insertion of cartridges when the arm is used as a singleloader, and for throwing out the empty shells after firing. Aside from this consideration, it is obvious that the adjustable lip may be lo cated at the right-hand side of the receiver,in which case, of course, the rock-shaft Z would be dispensed with, the thumb-piece b and the arm 0 in that case being united in the form of an ordinary elbow-lever receiver on the right side. ous that the plate G may and the arm 0 be connected to thelip P, so as to adjust it; but I prefer to use the plate G, as it serves as a guide for the rear end of the and pivoted to the So, too, it is obvi be dispensed with 20 lip and altogether renders it more perfect in through an opening in operation.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is-- p 1. In combination with a gun having a magazine arranged to feed the cartridges upward its receiver, the vertically-adjustable springlip P, arranged to bear upon the cartridges in the magazine and hold them at a higher or lower position therein, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with a magazine-gun such as described, the pivoted plate G, having the spring-1i p secured thereto, so as to be adjusted vertically therewith, said spring-lip engaging and holding the cartridges at a higher or lower position in the magazine, and the thumb-lever I), having the arm 0 rigidly sccured thereto and connected to the plate G, whereby the plate with its spring-lip can be raised or lowered at will, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination, ina magazine-gun substantially suclras described, of the pivoted plate G, having the spring lip P secured thereto and arranged to rest upon the cartridges in the magazine and hold thcnrat a higher or lower position therein, and the rock-shaft Z, provided with the arm 0 at one end and the thumb-lever b at its opposite end, with the notched plate a, all constructed and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

LOUIS P. DISS.

l/Vitnesses:

THos. RICHARDSON, A. D. RICHARDSON. 

